I take issue with this definition of "terrain elevation:" Emphasis is mine. Terrain elevation is only relative to MSL in some instances. There are many vertical datums. Sigh. gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewe...

Back in 2022, I asked for type hints in the python ndb interface. Almost 4 years later, type hints are in head! Thank you Chalmer Lowe for doing that! github.com/googleapis/g...

Alice hiding under the sheets on our bed

Today I made a clone of the 1972 game Pong using Rust and Bevy. I don't know the language of the game engine, so I used Google Jules to do 99% of the coding. It was about 10 hours from start to finish, but most of the time I was doing other stuff. Baby steps...

Another attempt to get back into blogging some stuff that I'm up to... I tried joern-scan on PROJ with not very exciting results. schwehr.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

Katrina Wyllie and Glen Rice: Coverage for Navigation: The NOAA Office of Coast Survey's National Bathymetric Source (NBS) program - ocean mapping and interpolation vimeo.com/1185258184

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For those trying to protect undersea cables, deploying surface ships is just a feel good maneuver. It's not hard to have remotely triggerable devices waiting to break cables. I would be surprised if devices were not already in place and extremely hard to detect. Sigh.

How do you list the devices connected to your Android hot spot? Nothing under the hotspot settings. I tried fing and it happily lists out a ton of devices connected to the hotel's wifi. But I would like to see which of the many devices in our room are on the hotspot.

Thanks to Marc for sharing. It was awesome to see him working at CCOM for a while back in the day and I got to go to his thesis defense. www.omao.noaa.gov/noaa-corps/n...

No. No they didn't. The EM output of a heart is not going to help you find a downed pilot. tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/...

CCOM is hiring. This is the group that co-developed NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), Whale Alert, and all kinds of other cool ocean mapping and navigation research. usnh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Justin Braaten just merge this Xee major change! It unblocks a lot of cleanup work that needs to get done. Very exciting! #earthengine github.com/google/Xee/p...

Both the wife and I have had weird Pixel phone charging issues today with the device cycling between charging and not. We both turn off adaptive charging and have working phones again. What gives? 📱📵📴🔌⚡😱😭

Falcon 9 launch - Starlink 17-35 mission. Was scheduled to lift off at 7:50 p.m. PDT from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Catastrophe...

I am pretty sure this isn't a sensical sentence: "The band fires grayscale ultrasound at tendons". Isn't it a grayscale visualization, not the specific waveforms from the transducer. Sigh. The original does not have that. From the summary in robotnews.therundown.ai/p/amazon-now...

So happy my shirt arrived last week

Shame on me for not following the PROJ mailing list policy :)

The COPERNICUS/DEM/GLO30 Digital Surface Model (DSM) now has a much more detailed example script in Earth Engine. Give it a try! developers.google.com/earth-engine... code.earthengine.google.com?scriptPath=E... #earthengine

At the park today. I think Jay is scoping my kid's apple

Sigh. Vertical datums are super important, but seriously confusing. Mean Sea Level (MSL) is not what most people think it is. Sigh. vdatum.noaa.gov/docs/datums....

Slowly working through cleanup of geemap... a long ways to go.

What did I miss in Greenland? More Epstein cover? gcaptain.com/trump-announ...

Doh! @globalfishingwatch.org

I'm looking for folks who work / worked on Copernicus DEM GLO-30: Global 30m Digital Elevation Model. I'm looking for folks to collaborate with building more detailed default visualizations. developers.google.com/earth-engine...

What has the open source world come to that there are tools like this? 🤕 github.com/mitchellh/vo...

A new article for my reading list: "A framework for assessing the trustworthiness of scientific research findings" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks @kylebarron.dev for sharing! developmentseed.org/async-geotif...

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

The GitHub Actions incident is blocking releasing software and testing PRs. "We continue to investigate failures impacting GitHub Actions hosted-runner jobs. We have identified the root cause and are working with our upstream provider to mitigate." www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xw...

Ugh. I was looking up Andy Loretta who worked at ORBCOMM and just now found out he passed away last summer. Andy was an awesome partner in helping to start @globalfishingwatch.org and an all around great guy. www.vanorsdel.com/obituaries/a...

White the www.bestpractices.dev/en/criteria/0 list is good things for a project to do, is there a book sized guide for open source software and, with the diversity of the community, is it even possible to have a guide like that? Too many axes of differentiation, yes?

Have you purchased your gdal.org/tshirt?

40 years later, I still vividly remember my class getting taken to the library to watch what the news of Space Shuttle exploding.

Santa Cruz, CA sunset from two days ago.

I've been sitting here in the middle of the night working through thoughts on best practices for open source projects, especially C++ based ones. I think GDAL does a lot really well. libais, on the other hand, is super behind the times. And then there is Python packaging 🤯

I have been trying to learn #rustlang for quite a while. I haven't put enough time in cause of other priorities :( So many resources have bounce off of me, but I finally found a video that I think I click with where I can enjoy watching and learning Rust. Start 5min in. youtu.be/rAl-9HwD858?...

Interesting take on Spec Driven Development. Much more like traditional software engineering with preliminary design docs, design docs, and implementation plans. I think the spec files are useful even if you don't have an LLM write code. youtu.be/gRi82PiiaOs?...

GitHub message search doesn't seem to do what it is saying. I ask for "EarthEngine" and get a whole lot of not Earth Engine :(

Just merged a fix to the #EarthEngine Python client fixing a bug with `ee.data.getMapId`. As a results, we yanked the 1.7.9 release from PyPI. github.com/google/earth...

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Well, this sucks! "Santa Cruz County is ranked worst in the state for victims killed and injured in bike crashes." www.ots.ca.gov/media-and-re...

I am not looking forward to a world filled with code created by systems like this. steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...

It's that time of year again. Please buy or donate Girl Scout cookies! the-moni-blog.blogspot.com/2026/01/girl...

Libraries are so amazing. We can't make this, but.. santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/15241092

TIL more than just gdal_translate can use all the CPU cores for decompression. So, pass `--config GDAL_NUM_THREADS=ALL_CPUS` to gdalinfo for massive compressed files! 🚀 github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...